Fashion is renowned for its ability to encapsulate the mood of its time, and in no era was this more starkly apparent than the Jazz Age. Known for glamour, optimism and freedom, it was a period when certain sectors of society partied their way through in the years after the shock and devastation of the First World War. And if one couple epitomise the sense of hedonism of that time, then it must be the writer F.Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda.

Fitzgerald famously called Zelda ‘the first American flapper’ and the mere mention of her name evokes visions of her opulent and daring style. So when Tom Broecker was appointed as the costume designer on Amazon Prime’s spectacular new series Z: The Beginning of Everything, he was perplexed to find that there is remarkably little evidence of what Zelda actually wore.

Zelda was labelled 'the first American flapper girl'

“The hard part was that we have the hearsay of what she wore but we don’t have any...